ETC International Freight was a moving nightmare.  From the very first day, when they picked up our household to the last day, 4 months later, we had nothing but problems.  The company added on numerous fees which aparently were included in the "fine print", causing the original contract amount to be doubled by the end of the nightmare.

Adding on fees is one thing.  But they way these folsk added on fees was distressing.  They often sent threatening emails with demand like "pay this today or pick up your container" and "if you dont pay we will auction your household".   Finally, on the night before delivery (4 months into the never ending saga) they called and demanded a C.O.D fee of $1,000 or "we will not deliver".   

The day tghey picked up our container we got a call saying that our home was 7 miles off where we had repoted.  This, in context, was 7 miles on a 6,000+ move.   They demanded $500, or "pick up your stuff at the port in LA".

Once this company has your entire household….you will experience a nightmare from which there is no exit.  You HAVE to pay, and pay, and pay, or "you will lose everything".

As retirees, my wife and I felt abused and manipulated.  It was stressful and an awful experience…but, as they will tell you again and again…"we have your stuff.  If you dont pay, we will auction your stuff".   Just Horrible.

On July6, 2019 I ordered the dryer fairy from an add I saw on Facebook. In reviewing my bank statement allamericangadgets took $356.01 out of my account. I contacted my bank started a dispute they gave me a provisional credit. Upon investigating allamericangadgets sent my bank a copy of USPS shipping label dated 8/3/19 to this date I had not received the dryer fairy they  Stated.

I agreed to the terms and conditions so my bank sent me a letter reversing the provisional credit which overdrew my account. The telephone numbers I received I could not talk to a live person. I faxed a letter to them requesting a return merchandise authorization number. I have not gotten a response to date it's been a month now. I recommend anyone the has had money taken you can contact me

(315) 752-5617 leave a message. I'll tell you how to proceed. 

Scott Murray ran a very small and unsuccessful fraudulant operation out of an office floor in a building that he shared with many others, including me. Scott Murray had a small office and a boardroom that was shared by everyone on the floor, but listening to Scott Murray talk to us and his visitors you would think he was running some huge successful high tech operation out of Ottawa ON and Halifax NS with hundreds of employees.

Scott Murray would constantly brag about having big name companies as his customers, receiving large government loans and subsidies and no one could figure this out as he would do nothing all day and had but one or two employees that were never paid. We would hear him talk to people and tell them how successful his non-existent business was and how he rented the other office space on our floor out to us for extra income and even telling some he owned the entire building, when in fact he couldn't even pay the rent on his own small office space and was basically thrown out and now I read he was locked out of another office building for failing to pay rent once again.

Although Scott Murray can't afford much, he does likes to brag and live large in a huge house, expensive cars, large boats, expensive travel, family vacations and so on…, all paid for by the Canadian and Nova Scotia government. I guess you can live that way when you get free fraudulant money and loans from the government that you will never pay back, never pay your taxes, never pay your employees, never pay your rent and never pay your bills.

I also read how he sent his children to a very expensive private school that he couldn't afford and then stiffed the school on the money they are owed (see the patern here). The line on collecting from Scott Murray is very long and getting longer every day so I'm saying goodbye to the money he owes me and good riddance.

I've done payday loans and online loans with several companies. This one takes the cake. $300 Is what they "loaned".  Every pay period I am paying $90 INTEREST nothing towards the principal. That is the biggest bunch of BS ever. I just called because they won't let me into the website (email and last 4) because my "email doesn't exist"

I called customer service to see how many more payments I had and they said when I pay $390 it will be a "cool down" other than that it is a continuous $90 payment forever.  I am attempting to review my "loan agreement" online since this is NOT a loan but a scam.

Well the problems with this is I bought a house in Marshfield in 2014. We did a sub division on the property which required that both houses on the lot be put onto its own water line. I was informed that we would be able to sub divide the property but we could deal with putting the house onto its own water line six months after closing.

Which was ok with me. However, litterally the day we closed on the property I was informed that there was an additional $3,500 worth of expenses needed to be paid immediately. In order to put my house onto its own water line. So me and the seller arranged to pay those fees. After a few months of waiting for them to come put the house onto the water line.

Rich Gouge came over and installed 2 curb stops about 100 ft away from the house. Which was kind of confusing to me why 2 curb stops were being installed because we only needed one curb stop. Than he asked me when I was going to hook the curb stop up to the house. Well I had already paid for the curb stop to be ran to the house. Than they expained to me that they installed 2 curb stops for $1500 some odd dollars each.

However, I never ordered 2 curb stops I only ordered the one curb stop to be hooked up, than the connection to be made to the house. Than basically wanted me to hire him again to make the connection to the house after I already paid for it. 

At this point I was very frustrated with the village because they'd been playing me along for 6 months lying about what needed to be done with the water and sewer connection. Than hiding the costs until I already had so much invested that I would not be able to do anything about it. At this time the water was still connected to the shared line, with an apartment building that had 3 units. 

Than some Deborah Tousignant had called me one day to tell me that North Country Fedral Credit Union had not paid the water bill. In which my mortgage is supposed to cover all water sewer and taxes from my escrow account. So at this time I told them to collect the money from North Country because its not my responsibility to pay.

That's why North Country was paying the bill out of escrow to begin with.  Than she called the neighbors residence and told them that they were going to shut the water off to an apartment building with 3 apartments in it, in order to get me to give them $271 immediately. Than authorized the neighbor to come to my residence and try to collect $271. Than after I was threatened with violence by the neighbor because I wasn't going to dish out $271 that was already paid into escrow to give to them immediately. 

Than they authorized him to go ahead and cut the connection to my house. So now I am left without water and a very bad situation in which I just bought a house in a village that is apparently so hard up for money that they will say and do anything to get money. 

After about 18 months without a water connection to the residence. I finally decided to have a water line installed. Than the villages sends me a bill trying to charge me for services over the course of the 18 months that the water and sewer weren't even connected to the house. At which point I gave them $500 to turn the water back on. 

Shortly after I keep getting threats that they are going to shut my water off if I do not pay some $2000 dollars plus interest. For water serverivces for the time the water was not connected to the house. Than soon as I turn the water on. They start trying to get me to pay them some rediculous amount that I don't even owe. At this time the village needs to pay me  $1500 for a curbstop I paid for but didn't order. Than another $2500 in labor and parts for having to dig up my water line.

Than they had the nerve to come over here and cut the top off of my curb $1500 curb stop. So now they owe me $1500 for a curbstop I never ordered. $2500 for having to redo the job that they never did. Than another $1500 for a curbstop. What this is, is a case of racial discrimination as Rich Gouge started calling me a host of racial slurs when confronted when he came onto my property. They tried every which way to sunday in order to get money that they aren't even owed. 

Here is a link to someone else having problems with the same entity. 
Marshfield Village Posts On FaceBook

The owner of this business Mike Kalis is a sick sociopath that likes to contact the employers of tenants who post honest reviews on his page. He tries to get them to lose their jobs because they are trying to warn the public of his illegal and shady business practices.

He increases rental rates with less than 30 day notice, does business in states like Georgia and Tennessee for which he does not have a valid license, they demand auto draft and then will charge amounts not previously agreed upon.

The owner will harass you via email, file false discrepancies on your credit report and they will not fix anything that is broken in your rental unit. Stay away from this company and the crazy owner Mike Kalis. I will post email screenshots shortly.

We booked on the internet and inadvertedly got the wrong hotel, within minutes we contacted Travelocity and asked if we could change hotels.  After a protacted conversation the phone person said they would contact the hotel to see if it would be possible, and we were to phone back the next day. 

As were phoning back we received an email saying the booking was cancelled and the $500+ was non refundable.  At no time did we say were were cancelling the booking, in fact we said if we could not change hotels we would stay at the one booked. 

After doing some research this seems to be a common practice of Travelocity.  My suggestion is to avoid them like the plague (which they are) and deal directly with the hotels.

On Monday Sept. 9, 2019, Judge Kelly Lee Ellerbe, Fulton County Superior Court, awarded an injunction against VC Mining Enterprises for in behalf of Blockchain United Mining Services a Wyoming company. (Civil Action File No. Plaintiff, 2019CV326248)

Blockchain United Mining Services complaint is that VC Mining Enterprises, Inc. an Atlanta company, has been and may still be stealing bitcoin from multiple families across the country, and has unlawfully seized bitcoin mining equipment belonging to these families.

VC Mining is located at 2380 Godby Road and is owned by Michael Oken with additional owners and employees Greg Ohanessian, Jeffrey Jones, Justin Gerry, and Lisa DeKalb. It's registered agent is an Atlanta attorney, Justin Daniels with the law firm Baker Donelson.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/vcmining
https://vcmining.com/

Pictured at links above: Michael Oken, Greg Ohanessian, and Lisa DeKalb. Not pictured: Jeffrey Jones and Justin Gerry.

I represent one family that has property in this Atlanta facility. They continue to refuse to release my property and I understand it is the same for others. I am being told there is a contract dispute, but I don't understand how that is possible since I have no contract with VC Mining. 

The injunction states that VC Mining is holding in excess of 2000 high performance servers, an estimated $6MM.  This facility’s owners and employees are justifying the seizure of this property, WHILE still operating the equipment and further stealing the bitcoin rewards ( estimated at $12,000 per day in BTC) that rightfully belong to the families hosting their personal equipment with Blockchain United Mining Services.  

From the ruling (Civil Action File No. Plaintiff, 2019CV326248):

1. 1. FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

The Court finds: (1) there is a substantial threat that Plaintiff will suffer

irreparable injury if the injunction is not granted; (2) the threatened injury to

Plaintiff outweighs the threatened harm that the injunction may do to Defendants;

(3) there is a substantial likelihood that Plaintiff will prevail on the merits of its

Claims at trial; and (4) granting the interlocutory injunction will not disserve the

public interest.

Ruling goes on to state that the defendant is “ENJOINED and RESTRAINED” from accessing any of the plaintiffs equipment.

Further, Michael Oken, Greg Ohanessian, Jeffrey Jones, Justin Gerry and Lisa DeKalb have all been personally served in connection with this affair.

At least four different customers from across the country have been in contact with authorities (the police, FBI, and other civil authorities in Atlanta) to file criminal charges and other complaints against VC Mining and it’s principals.  

What VC Mining is doing is no different than a land owner saying that because the bank leasing their land has defaulted on the lease (or some other alleged contract breach) gives them the right to the property in the safe deposit boxes, AS WELL AS the daily bank deposits going to the bank. 

The property in those safety deposit boxes and the customers' daily money deposits clearly still belong to the customers of the bank, not the land owner. Even if the bank defaulted on its lease, the landlord has no right to the bank customer’s information, property, or money.

In my home state, the authorities call that ‘THEFT.’  Given the amount of customers this is affecting, it’s likely felony THEFT, at least as far as I understand Georgia statute 16-8-1.

My purpose in issuing this letter is to give warning to anyone that has business dealings with VC Mining and ask for your help sharing this warning.  If these individuals are willing to brazenly steal from me and other families, I can only imagine that they believe this is an acceptable business practice and likely have done it to many others. 

It’s disappointing that anyone would consider themselves justified in seizing personal property without permission, no matter how desperate their situation may be.  And all I can figure is that the named individuals at VC Mining must be very very desperate.

Diablo Body Jewelry has been taking orders this year and not filling them.  They are hostile when you e-mail, that's if you even receive a response.  I saw online that there are 200 orders so far not shipped from earlier this year.  I purchased months ago too.  The customer service response is pretty vulgar and not apologetic. 

I purchased my new refrigerator from Sears four years ago. First of all I purchased Kenmore, not knowing it was LG!!! The ice maker did not produce ice. For 2 1/2 years they would come to repair for it to only last approx. 6 months before breaking down again. After the 3rd year a tech comes and explains that the ice maker has been recalled, it's none repairable.

Now year 4, the unit stopped cooling! They come and replace the control board because it was on recall too. Really??? Now I'm on technician visit number 6 within 2 weeks. Day after installation of new board…warm again!!! No freezer, no refrigerator. Ma'am it's your compressor. Another week for compressor to arrive, installed, nothing. The thing is warmer with new compressor. Why???!!! We are now past week 3, no refrigerator.

Sears Home Warranty won't replace because Technicians keep playing "Process of Elimination". They are not deeming it dead, therefore, we are at the mercy of diagnoses, which are still not correcting the problem, only asking that we wait more days to get more parts. Unbelievable!!! I call Sears corporate, their answering service explains that my complaint would only go to a voicemail because Sears no longer have employees. Sears Home Warranty continues to call me with hopeful remedies and not a replacement after 3 weeks.

My refrigerator died August 19th, and the tech Sears is dispatching states "Well, it's registering at 45 degrees, you should be OK with this for another week." ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!????? 45 won't keep meat, or milk and I have 2 diabetics living in my house!!! I don't want all the money I've spent in insurance to go to waste, but no one capable is able to service LG Appliances. DON'T BUY THEM!!!!! BUYERS BEWARE!!!